List of aircraft of Poland, World War II
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Fighters'39
- PZL P.11PZL P.11The PZL P.11 was a Polish fighter aircraft, designed in the early 1930s by PZL in Warsaw. It was briefly considered to be the most advanced fighter aircraft design in the world...
(175 vs 140) note: the best fighter plane on Earth during the 1st half of the 1930s; by 1939 was still able to knock down quite a few German planes (170) - PZL P.7PZL P.7-References:NotesBibliography* Cynk, Jerzy B. History of the Polish Air Force 1918-1968. Reading, Berkshire, UK: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1972.* Cynk, Jerzy B. Polish Aircraft, 1893-1939. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1971. ISBN 0-370-00085-4....
(105 VS 30) note: obsolete by the time of the war; used out of necessity
Light Bombers/Tactical Bombers'39
- PZL 23A PZL.23 Karas|-Specifications :-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Angelucci, Enzo and Paolo Matricardi. World War II Airplanes . Chicago: Rand McNally, 1978. ISBN 0-52888-170-1....
Karaś (30 vs 0) note: experimental version - PZL 23BPZL.23 Karas|-Specifications :-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Angelucci, Enzo and Paolo Matricardi. World War II Airplanes . Chicago: Rand McNally, 1978. ISBN 0-52888-170-1....
Karaś (170 vs 120)
Medium/Heavy Bombers
- PZL 37 Los (61 vs 36) note: the best bomber in the World by 1939 due to unjustifiable objections from the Polish Army too few were made and too few crews were ready by 1 SEP 39
- PZL 30LWS-6 Zubr-See also:-References:*Andrzej Glass: "Polskie konstrukcje lotnicze 1893-1939" , WKiŁ, Warsaw 1977 * at airwar.ru...
Zubr (30 vs 0) note: obsolete by the time of the war
1939 Totals
771 made vs 421 usednote: leaving the obsolete planes on the airfields and not using them in combat was, perhaps, one of the bigger errors that the Polish High Command committed; in spite of that the crews would have most likely died (the crews could have been chosen from the terminally ill—the Poles almost certainly knew about the Nazi policy of killing all terminally and mentally ill, since Poland had been asking other countries, based on her own intelligence, for a pre-emptive war against Germany between 1934 and 1937), they could have kept the German airforce busy
note: not using the air planes in great numbers before the 3rd of September was perhaps another error